It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous. . . they ought to be abolished.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
I love that the level of mediocrity rises.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.